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A smiling crowd of stylists gathers around a chair, watching as a special guest deftly weaves a woman's hair into a type of braid they've never seen. He lets them pick up where he leaves off, showing them how to part and plait with encouraging guidance. This is not an impromptu sleepover, but a school lesson?Redhouse Salon prioritizes up-to-date education with several events and classes for its staff. In fact, continuing-education milestones are factored in with creativity to determine an employee's rank on the team. By staying abreast of current trends and innovative looks, they broaden their repertoire beyond simple cuts and color applications. Their services cover highlights, stress-reducing scalp massages, and retexturing treatments from the popular perms and Brazilian blowouts to more obscure japanese straightening techniques.
The salon's aestheticians also administer pore-pampering facials. Having trained at the Rep?chage institute in New Jersey, they nourish skin with marine ingredients such as seaweed and cleansing slaps from a fish's tail. Elsewhere, nail technicians conclude mani-pedis with swipes of OPI polish and CND Shellac, and massage therapists channel the scents of aromatherapy and the focused pressure of deep-tissue work to ease aches. Clients who hope to carry pieces of their visits home with them can browse shelves of retail products?including formulas from Bumble and bumble, Aveda, and M.D. Skin Care?all of which have been tested and approved by the staff.

When Angel Sanborn and her sister started sculpting trendy hairstyles and cleansing complexions, they weren't in a salon?they were in their own home. "I was always in the wrong place at the wrong time," Angel said as she reminisced about the chaos of performing spa services in the hours following her day job. The sisters' success multiplied as they accrued more and more clients for wedding and bachelor parties. Soon they were performing services for their friends' friends, eventually getting within two degrees of Kevin Bacon. "It kept going and going and it's still going," Angel said. The two sisters decided to quit their jobs and offer salon and spa services full time. To do so, they opened Salon Heat?a full-service beauty center with treatments for hair and skin.

When Angel Sanborn and her sister started sculpting trendy hairstyles and cleansing complexions, they weren't in a salon?they were in their own home. "I was always in the wrong place at the wrong time," Angel said as she reminisced about the chaos of performing spa services in the hours following her day job. The sisters' success multiplied as they accrued more and more clients for wedding and bachelor parties. Soon they were performing services for their friends' friends, eventually getting within two degrees of Kevin Bacon. "It kept going and going and it's still going," Angel said. The two sisters decided to quit their jobs and offer salon and spa services full time. To do so, they opened Salon Heat?a full-service beauty center with treatments for hair and skin.

At Rosewood Spa, clients relax as staffers tend to their skin, nails, and backs within a retrofitted home that was built in 1853 and retains its historical charm. With eyes closed during relaxing treatments, clients can imagine the opulent fashions and leaked Oscar Wilde spoilers that passed through the historical building's halls. A massage therapist pores over their muscles with fluid strokes or uses 100% organic, Michigan-made Woodsprite Organic Body products to exfoliate and moisturize during a custom facial. The staff also primps nails and performs waxing, and Rosewood Spa opens its
doors for private spa parties, during which girls can congregate and indulge in the staff's pampering expertise.

The artistic stylists at Being Salon shear locks according to Rusk professional cutting techniques, snipping tresses into precision cuts that flatter face shapes. Under the maestros? deft hands, manes transform into sleek, smooth waterfalls or curl into bouncy coils, and hair shades shift seamlessly from one color to another or learn to take on the colors of their surroundings. In addition to tending to head threads, the aestheticians at Being Salon wax away unwanted fuzz and tint lashes, and its manicurists employ polish, gel, or even fiberglass to brighten nails.